January 2021
In January 2021, a professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford said that joggers and cyclists should be wearing masks when exercising outdoors.
May 2022
In spite of the UK mitigations, everyone in the country had Covid-19:
The presence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 suggests that a person has previously been infected with COVID-19 or vaccinated. In the week beginning 2 May 2022, the percentage of adults estimated to have antibodies above a 179 nanograms per millilitre (ng/ml) level is:
- 99.1% in England
- 98.9% in Wales
- 98.9% in Northern Ireland
- 99.1% in Scotland
Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest insights – Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) (as of May 29, 2022)
Conclusion
Having joggers and cyclists wear masks did not work and served no purpose.